Behavior Observation Techniques and Passenger Screening
The Observation of Behavior and the Techniques necessary to analyze Behavior during the Passenger Screening Process at airports, Cruise ship, and public transportation terminals require specialized training that can discern between the nervous but innocent traveler, and the subject that is trying to gain illegal access, the one that is attempting to bypass a restricted item through security, or the one that is travelling with altered documents.
Behavior Observation Techniques for officers responsible for Airport Security, Port Security, Bus and Rail Security requires an understanding of Human Behavior in a Transportation Terminal Setting, the ability to select passengers out of a line in the screening process based on Deceptive Behavior, known as “Behavior Profiling,” and an understanding of the current rules and regulations that guide the security of the transportation system.
Transportation Security and Behavior Observation Techniques
Understanding and knowing how a perpetrator behaves in a bus, train, sea port, or airport terminal is the first step towards passenger security screening. When we consider that 99% of the traveling public is not involved in an illegal activity that requires action on the part of the officer, Security Interviewing Techniques play a crucial role on How “Deceptive Behavior” or “Tell Tale Indicators” are recognized, identified, and communicated across all groups responsible for the security Screening of the passengers. “Behavior Profiling” defines the ground work for Behavior Observation Techniques. This process requires a common terminology between the Airline Security, Airport Security, Port Security, Ground Security, Transportation Security, and Law Enforcement. This concept has slowly gained the acceptance and inclusion into the regulations and codes that guide Transportation Security.
Behavior Observation Techniques require a common language based on “Deceptive Behavior” for all stake holders in Transportation Security Screening, taking in consideration communication among Law Enforcement and non Law Enforcement groups. Behavior Observation Techniques in a Ground, Port, and Airport Terminal Setting can improve screening of Passengers at Security checkpoints, and expedite Passenger Screening. Ultimately, it is the constant adaptation of the Transportation Security codes and regulations to include and recognize the application of Behavior Observation Techniques in Transportation Security. More info
Improving Border Security
Cayman Islands Government – 30 November 2007
Border security in the Cayman Islands has been strengthened with the training of 23 officers in the use of observational techniques and behavioural analysis. A group of 18 immigration officers, three members of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, and two officers from HM Prisons Northward have been trained in the science of utilising observational techniques and behavioural analysis to identify passengers who could pose potential security risk at the island’s port of entries.
Chief Immigration Officer Franz Manderson said that such training is relevant in a time of heightened security globally. He said that in today’s environment officers had to be routinely prepared to respond to potential threats to border security whether at the Islands’ airports or at the seaports. The training is effective in “streamlining passenger inspection flow by identifying with increased speed and accuracy that minute percentage of individuals who may require closer scrutiny, detection and apprehension.”
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Border Security Training For Law Enforcement
Radio Cayman - 06/12/2007
Border security in the Cayman Islands and many countries utilize the techniques routinely to combat drug smuggling, terrorism, and illegal immigration; to strengthen airline and airport security; and in general law enforcement procedures. Mr. Ellis said the system is currently being used by the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the US Department of Customs and Border Protection to assess and evaluate passenger behaviour and to determine appropriate actions.
The Deputy Chief Immigration Officer in charge of Border Security, Mr. Bruce Smith, said that the intensive five-day course will assist officers involved in border security to be more effective in carrying out their functions of protecting the territory’s borders.
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Ship Security Alert System (SSAS)
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) with the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code) which is a comprehensive set of measures to enhance the security of ships and port facilities, developed in response to the perceived threats to ships and port facilities as acts of piracy and terrorist attacks have increased and over the years.
The ISPS Code is implemented through chapter XI-2 Special measures to enhance maritime security, and to improve security for ships in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS). The new SOLAS resolution 6 states that the Ship Security Alert System shall provide ships with two alarm buttons, which can be activated in case of a piracy or terrorist attack. The alarm is a covert signal, which will have no sound and no flashing lights so that it is in no way obvious to any intruders on board the ship. This Ship Security Alert System are now installed on Passenger ships, including high-speed passenger crafts, Oil tankers, chemical tankers, gas carriers, bulk carriers and high-speed cargo vessels of 500 gross tonnage and upwards.
* ISPS CODE, 2003 Edition, International Maritime Organization, ISBN 92-801-5149-5
Most of the questions we receive on Ship Security Alert Systems (SSAS) are normally on the process of testing, false alarms, and notification to the Administration. The following links should answer some of the basic questions on the Ship Security Alert Systems (SSAS). But please feel free to contact us with your questions.
Rovertech International Inc.
Security and Detection Consultants
Ft. Lauderdale, FL USA
www.transportationsecuritytraining.com
- Guidance On The Message Priority And The Testing Of Ship Security Alert Systems Click Here
- Performance Standards for a Ship Security Alert System Click Here
- Guidance on Provision of Ship Security Alert Systems Click Here
- Revised List of Certificates and Documents Required To Be Carried On Board Ships Click Here
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